Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 10
“I cannot carry you over this little river, but I will help you.
Who acts: heron · What happens: not carry, help · To what, where: you, little river
This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 carry | advmod |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 river | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 river | amod |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 carry | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 help | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry in a quote | can | heron | you | this little river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | future | heron | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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